Posted on 9/26/2017, 9:08:00 PM by cotton1706
McConnell vowed after the 2010 and 2012 elections, where conservative candidates beat out establishment-backed favorites in primaries but then lost in general-election contests, that he would crack down on Tea Party insurgents.
“I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” McConnell told The New York Times in March 2014. GOP leaders were able to do that thanks in part to big-spending allies such as the Senate Leadership Fund, which spent $114 million in the 2016 election cycle, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
But McConnell also vowed at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2013 that Republicans would repeal ObamaCare “root and branch” if they regained full power in Washington.
“On issue after issue, Senate Republicans are making excuses rather than delivering,” said Ken Cuccinnelli, head of the Senate Conservatives Fund. “We could definitely see a string of new primary challengers emerge in the coming months and Senate Republicans will only have themselves to blame for it.” Party strategists say the failure of ObamaCare repeal-and-replace legislation in the Senate in July is directly responsible for Moore’s strong showing in the Alabama primary.
“There’s no question. There’s one issue that stands out above all the rest. The failure of ObamaCare repeal in July lit the fuse for what we’re seeing in September in Alabama,” said a GOP strategist with experience in high-profile Senate and House races.
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The GOPe is biggest reason Tea Party challengers lost in general. Not only did they not support them, they campaigned against them as in DE Christine O’Donnell.
What a sorry POS he is
McConnell can’t grasp political dynamics any longer.
It’s a shame, but the guy is just clueless.
His family should wheel him out of there, before he hurts himself.
Yup, and Ken Buck in CO, and Joe Miller in AK. If Murkowski was gone, we might just have repealed Obamacare. But we all know that the GOP really doesn’t want it repealed.
So we’ll replace them, and a bunch of democrats next year, THEN repeal it.
Don’t know this writer but he is an idiot
You’d think but the old adage still stands: “You can’t beat someone with no one.”
cannot beat an incumbent in the primary without enough money.
When they no longer have the core values that the Party was founded on it is over! All the RINOs need to go! There are good Conservatives out there and the establishment know it so they will spend millions of dollars that they never worked for to try to defeat them!!
The good news is since 2010 Conservatives have won many governorships and seats in statehouse across the country. So there’s a better more experienced pool of candidates to choose from to take these RINOs out.
They did dirty on her big time. Witchcraft, money rumors of some type. Saw her interview with Fox host (?) and was very much impressed with her.
We ridicule others who play the victim card... Should we play the victim card?
Our candidates lose because they make mistakes. They do or say stupid things.
Doesn't seem to hurt Democrats.
Wonder if they are sorry they helped that idiot Murkowski now? She isn’t even playing along with them.
To be fair: She was a witch...
Mistakes don’t seem to hurt Democrats?
Clinton’s whole campaign was one big mistake.
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